Tiger v. Western Investment Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE ÓF OKLAHOMA. The facts, which involve the construction and. constitutionality of the provision of the act of April 26, 1906, c. 1876, 34 Stat. 137, requiring certain conveyances of full-blood Indians to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE ÓF OKLAHOMA. The facts, which involve the construction and. constitutionality of the provision of the act of April 26, 1906, c. 1876, 34 Stat. 137, requiring certain conveyances of full-blood Indians to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, are stated in the opinion. In determining the meaning and application of a statute, the courts will consider the mischief to be prohibited or the benefits to be conferred, the nature of the subject-matter, the class and condition of the persons to be affected, the necessities and circumstances of its…
1Opinion of the Court
■ Mr. Justice Day
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case involves the validity of conveyances made by Marchie Tiger, plaintiff in error, a full-blood Indian of the Creek tribe, to the defendants in error, the Western Investment Company, and Ellis H. Hammett, R. C. Allan and J. C. Pinson, copartners under the name of Coweta Realty Company
The lands in controversy were located in the Indian Territory, were allotted under certain a,cts of Congress, to which we shall h^ve occasion to refer later, and were inherited by Marchie Tiger during the year 1903 from his deceased brother and sisters,…
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